Direction-pointer.



L. S. ALTER.

DIRECTION POINTER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6. 1914.

Patented July 6, 1915.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH cm, WASHINGTON, D. c.

LUTE S. ALTER, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

DIRECTION-POINTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 6, 1915.

Application filed June 6, 1914. Serial No. 843,459.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LUTE S. ALTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Direction-Pointer, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a direction pointer, and the object is'to provide a magnetic needle in a concealed cavity and provided with a stem on which is a visible nonmagnetic needle fixed at an angle to the magnetic needle, the prime object being that the visible needle will point to a certain 10- cality, or in the general direction of said locality until it has been reached or passed.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a plan view of the device. Fig. 2 is a section of the device on line 0a w Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a section on line w 0a Fig. 2. Fig. i is a rear view of the device. Fig. 5 is a perspective of the needles.

1 designates a visible non-magnetic needle fastened to or integral with a balanced bearing 2. A magnetic needle 3 is fastened to the bearing 2, which is balanced on a pin 3, said pin being fastened in a piece of card board f and held centrally with a disk 5, which also fits over said pin. The disk 5 is held rigidly in a frame 6 and against a mirror 7 by a ring 8. On the ring 8 is placed a disk 9 for the purpose of concealing the interior of the case. On the disk 9 is placed another ring 10, which acts as a spacer between the disk 9 and a transparent cover 11 and the whole is clamped together by the edges of the case being bent over as shown at 12 in Fig. 3, the space between the disk 9 and cover 11 forming a space 13 for the visible arrow 1, on which may be printed the direction of any particular place to which the attention of the possessor is to be directed, as shown in Fig. 1. Thus, if the device is to point toward the place where the Panama Pacific Exposition is to be held, the visible arrow will be arranged at right an gles to the concealed magnetic arrow so that the magnetic needle in pointing to the north will cause the visible arrow to point to the west, assuming the device to be used in the United States, east of the Panama Pacific Exposition. If west of the exposition, the visible arrow would be arranged to point to the east.

What I claim is:

In an advertising device, a circular horizontal frame, a wall held within said frame and closing the bottom thereof, a pin projecting upwardly through the wall, a bearing balanced on the point of the pin, a mag netic needle fastened rigidly to said bearing, a second wall within said frame above the needle to conceal the latter, a visible, needlelike pointer rigidly secured to the hearing at an angle to the needle, a sight glass secured within the frame to protect the bearing and pointer, and spacing rings within the casing to hold said walls and sight glass in proper spaced relation.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles, California, this 1st day of June1914.

LUTE S. ALTER.

In presence of LORRAINE E. Donnow, LORA M. Bownns.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

